Homer Jay Simpson: Dig him up! Dig up that corpse! If you really love Jebediah Springfield, you'll haul his bones out of the ground to prove my daughter wrong! Dig up his grave! Pull out his tongue!
Mayor 'Diamond' Joe Quimby: Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with us digging up a corpse?
Besides, what happens when neither corpse is the Kid? I mean, anyone who has seen the Simpsons Halloween special knows he's buried in Springfield, just waiting for all of us to throw away our guns!:-)
Take a look at the new iBooks, it's already here and being marketed as a G4. I can't find PPCXXXX listed anywhere on Apple's site right now, but I've read reports from people who've purchased one. PPC 750FX I think?
Yeah, but this time, we don't have to add "and then company X came along, pretended they invented the whole thing, and made all the money." Putting together a music store, a portable player, and the software to run it all is a lot less simple than sticking a WiFi card in your notebook line:-)
Why is it that everyone is bitching, but no one is working on an alternative? Searching for 'Election' on sourceforge came up with exactly NOTHING. That's like the RIAA shutting down Napster without offering a suitable replacement. The 'problem' just got worse. What we need is a open source replacement, and a lot of you smart geeks working on it. Have criticisms? Do something. Change it. We're not gonna get anywhere just sitting here bitching about it. Want the government to use more open source solutions? Provide them. Instead of working on some me-too office software or what not, how about doing something original and getting some real props for it? That is the ONLY way out of this mess. Software by the people for the people!:-)
In general, the people who are drawn to such careers are the same bullies who picked on the Slashdot crowd in high school.
Ok, for the sake of argument, they're jerks. But they're our jerks. Should we disband the military so that Cuba's jerks can come in and pound our defenseless ass?
What parent wouldn't feel more secure leaving their kids at school with this in place? Of course it's smart.
I would feel less secure.
Teacher: Oh good, now I don't have to take roll. The machine handles that for me. If they are supposed to be here, it isn't my problem. That's the machine's job. If she doesn't show, it will let the parents know.
Little Johnny: Little Suzie is skipping today, so I'll just swipe her card for her. We're neighbors and have the same classes, so it will look like she's been here all day. She'll do it for me next week.
Little Suzie (dead in ax murderer's closet): *silence*
Principal: Well Mrs. Little Suzie, we don't know where she is. She showed up for all her classes and logged out from her bus at 3:20 PM. Check around the bus stop.
And the following year we are introduced to the Little Suzie law, requiring implanted RFIDs in children to solve that problem. Once implanted, it's foolproof, and it's good for life!
Yeah right, more secure. Screw that, if I had children there, I would be looking into home schooling. They can't make you send them.
Use of copyright to restrict redistribution is actually
immoral, unethical, and illegitimate. It is a result of
brainwashing by monopolists and corporate interests and it
violates everyone's rights. Copyrights and patents hamper
technological progress by making a naturally abundant resource
scarce. Many, from communists to right wing libertarians, are
trying to abolish intellectual property myths.
Who the hell wrote that? Well, it's better than the RIAA's version. Interesting:-)
So Walt Disney Corp can still sell Mickey exclusively and so that Time Warner can sue you for singing 'Happy Birthday' of course. What? You don't see the point in that??
Yeah, and she just wants a new rug too. That's all. Honest. But then it doesn't match the drapes... oh well, it's just new drapes. Couch... reupholstered. Paint? Wallpaper. Pretty soon, she's got a whole new room.
Welcome to the flock brother. Let us know what she thinks of her new iBook after you've been lectured about iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, iChat, iSight, and iGiveUPHeresYourDamniBookAlready!;)
The reason it asks for a password is that an OS X 'administrator' is not root. It's staff. There is no root account by default. You have to enable that purposely. The point is that if you double click something that looks like a picture file and it asks you for your admin password, you KNOW something is up. On Windows, double click and you're dead. If it doesn't ask and you're running as an Admin, it might wipe out/Applications and ~/, but it can't touch/System or any other user's files. If you run as a regular user, then only ~/ can be hosed.
What will force e-tailers in foreign nations to collect a tax and send it our way? Either they won't collect or they may happily collect it but never send it to the US. Really, what can happen to you for breaking US tax law in China? Either way, it will be real incentive for e-tailers to leave the US for foreign nations since most of the crap we buy is made over there anyway. Are we going to have provisions in this law to abide by local taxes globally? A 'we collect for you if you collect for us' kind of arrangement? Nope, just shortsighted greedy state legislators I'm sure.
So what is to stop internet sellers from simply putting up a printable order form? If you have to snail mail in your order, it is mail ordered and exempt. No different from the situation now, but it takes a little longer. Certainly worth the effort on bigger ticket items.
But how is it that mail order would be exempt and internet sales would not be exempt in the first place? I'd love to know how they are going to just explain away
"No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state."
"No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one state, be obliged to enter, clear or pay duties in another." (Article I, Section 9 of the US Constitution)
I think that speaks for itself, or shall we have the revisionist telling us that 'vessels' meant spaceships, just like 'the people' means the National Guard in the Second Amendment? Maybe some of our fine lawmakers should have taken the time to read our Constitution at it's recent unveiling.
On the balance of probabilities, it seems to me that right about 10-20 years ago we should have stopped buring the planet's carbon sinks and moved over to nuclear.
Limestone.
Hmm, ok maybe a few more words. One word is gonna whiz right over the heads of our computer science crowd;-) Limestone = largest carbon deposits on earth, basically CaCO3. Created by plankton, the most abundant form of life in the ~2/3 of the planet we don't live on, known as the oceans. You've obviously been led to believe that most of the Earth's CO2 was caught in few small bogs several million years ago and that handful of rain forest was taking care of all the world's CO2 for us.
Take a nice long look at Table 9r-1 here. Notice how units (in billions of tons) of fossil fuels = 4,000, where 'Marine Sediments' = 66-100,000,000. If the diagram were 'to scale' that black representing the fossil fuels would be smaller than a pixel. The earth gets warmer, the earth gets cooler. Stuff like this happens. The idea that we are going to destroy our environment with CO2 is laughable.
You must unlearn what you have learned young jedi:-) The big scary "Global Warming" is a 90's save the earth fad. Thirty years previous, everyone was worried about the impending Ice Age! Have a nice day, and don't let the sky fall on ya;-)
but anybody short of that gets their pipe doubled... would you go for it?
That's a rather broad assumption. Has it occurred to you that maybe they want to drop the top 1% because they simply want to make more money off the other 99%? If you haven't read this, then do so now. To quote from that article,
The good news is that this particular performance issue can be resolved by the cable company adding a new channel and splitting the base of users.
In other words, with 6 Gigabits/s available in that coaxial cable the bandwidth on the cable company's network is not the problem. The traffic generated outside their network, and costing Comcast $X is the problem. You're connection isn't going to get any faster when the pigs are gone. At best you'll get a short lived boost while they find other 'desirable' customers to use that bandwidth. Considering we are being sold on 'Always on, super fast connections' with no mention of bandwidth limits, I would be supremely upset if it were my ISP trying to pull this stunt. If they did, I would probably be shopping around for a new ISP. They provide no guidelines as to how much is too much, effectively making it a 'we can boot anyone we don't like' agreement.
And the worst part of it is, this crap happens all the time when something is internet related. Ridiculous stuff like $150,000 dollar fines for downloading a song. Let's see an electric utility try to pull a stunt like this, citing overloaded power grids and making the grids work for the other 99%. Or maybe the water supply, we'll just cut off LA's water supply then the rest of the state can use all they want! Wouldn't happen in a million years.
Yeah, and just when we were a few months away from talking about our desktops and their terabyte drives, (sound like terror, very 1337) we will instead get some kibi, mebi, tibi crap. That just SUCKS! Maybe there is hope yet. If we are lucky, they'll call it a titibyte!;)
And then there's that whole CIA-Crack thing that no one ever did anything about. If they are on a leash, someone forgot to tie off the other end of it.
Is the diamond transistor really even all that special? IBM announced a 210 GHz transistor a long time ago. Any wonder why the PPC 970s are kicking the crap out of anything Intel has to offer? [Sorry, I couldn't resist;)]
According to this page it seems the small tube of liquid serves as a heat pipe. Not there so much for cooling reasons as it is for space constraints. But I could be wrong, today is the first I've heard of it... If I had mod points you'd definitely get a +1 for Mac trivia:-)
Ok, so I probably shouldn't respond to AC but you called me a troll. I believe the original parent was talking about replacement hardware. Like drives, RAM, etc. To say this stuff costs more for a Mac is patently false. My mac uses the same stuff the PC uses. On the actual system prices, Apple is not out of line. In many cases they beat a comparable system from PC manufacturers by thousands. Look at the XServe vs. Dell's offering. Or go spec out a dual Xeon vs. a dual G5. In a few cases Apple comes out a little more expensive, by a couple hundred dollars at most. But usually you get a lot more for your money. Take the 17" Powerbook for instance. A 'comparable' PC notebook might cost a couple hundred less, but does it come with GigE or the obvious 17" screen? Nope. And my guess is that if you looked at hardware failure rates, the expensive Apple comes out smelling like roses.
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Homer Jay Simpson: Dig him up! Dig up that corpse! If you really love Jebediah Springfield, you'll haul his bones out of the ground to prove my daughter wrong! Dig up his grave! Pull out his tongue!
Mayor 'Diamond' Joe Quimby: Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with us digging up a corpse?
Besides, what happens when neither corpse is the Kid? I mean, anyone who has seen the Simpsons Halloween special knows he's buried in Springfield, just waiting for all of us to throw away our guns! :-)
Take a look at the new iBooks, it's already here and being marketed as a G4. I can't find PPCXXXX listed anywhere on Apple's site right now, but I've read reports from people who've purchased one. PPC 750FX I think?
Yeah, but this time, we don't have to add "and then company X came along, pretended they invented the whole thing, and made all the money." Putting together a music store, a portable player, and the software to run it all is a lot less simple than sticking a WiFi card in your notebook line :-)
Why is it that everyone is bitching, but no one is working on an alternative? Searching for 'Election' on sourceforge came up with exactly NOTHING. That's like the RIAA shutting down Napster without offering a suitable replacement. The 'problem' just got worse. What we need is a open source replacement, and a lot of you smart geeks working on it. Have criticisms? Do something. Change it. We're not gonna get anywhere just sitting here bitching about it. Want the government to use more open source solutions? Provide them. Instead of working on some me-too office software or what not, how about doing something original and getting some real props for it? That is the ONLY way out of this mess. Software by the people for the people! :-)
In general, the people who are drawn to such careers are the same bullies who picked on the Slashdot crowd in high school.
Ok, for the sake of argument, they're jerks. But they're our jerks. Should we disband the military so that Cuba's jerks can come in and pound our defenseless ass?
I dislike guns because I'm not into wacko violent groups of any stripe.
Like the military and the police? They are a bunch of violent wackos aren't they? We should disband them!
It kills me how politicians want us to give up our guns, but would never consider giving up their own.
What parent wouldn't feel more secure leaving their kids at school with this in place? Of course it's smart.
I would feel less secure.
Teacher: Oh good, now I don't have to take roll. The machine handles that for me. If they are supposed to be here, it isn't my problem. That's the machine's job. If she doesn't show, it will let the parents know.
Little Johnny: Little Suzie is skipping today, so I'll just swipe her card for her. We're neighbors and have the same classes, so it will look like she's been here all day. She'll do it for me next week.
Little Suzie (dead in ax murderer's closet): *silence*
Principal: Well Mrs. Little Suzie, we don't know where she is. She showed up for all her classes and logged out from her bus at 3:20 PM. Check around the bus stop.
And the following year we are introduced to the Little Suzie law, requiring implanted RFIDs in children to solve that problem. Once implanted, it's foolproof, and it's good for life!
Yeah right, more secure. Screw that, if I had children there, I would be looking into home schooling. They can't make you send them.
Check this out.
Use of copyright to restrict redistribution is actually immoral, unethical, and illegitimate. It is a result of brainwashing by monopolists and corporate interests and it violates everyone's rights. Copyrights and patents hamper technological progress by making a naturally abundant resource scarce. Many, from communists to right wing libertarians, are trying to abolish intellectual property myths.
Who the hell wrote that? Well, it's better than the RIAA's version. Interesting :-)
So Walt Disney Corp can still sell Mickey exclusively and so that Time Warner can sue you for singing 'Happy Birthday' of course. What? You don't see the point in that??
Yeah, and she just wants a new rug too. That's all. Honest. But then it doesn't match the drapes... oh well, it's just new drapes. Couch... reupholstered. Paint? Wallpaper. Pretty soon, she's got a whole new room.
Welcome to the flock brother. Let us know what she thinks of her new iBook after you've been lectured about iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, iChat, iSight, and iGiveUPHeresYourDamniBookAlready! ;)
Cut off their revenue stream by listening to bands that they don't own! You know, bands that would love for you to download their music.
The reason it asks for a password is that an OS X 'administrator' is not root. It's staff. There is no root account by default. You have to enable that purposely. The point is that if you double click something that looks like a picture file and it asks you for your admin password, you KNOW something is up. On Windows, double click and you're dead. If it doesn't ask and you're running as an Admin, it might wipe out /Applications and ~/, but it can't touch /System or any other user's files. If you run as a regular user, then only ~/ can be hosed.
What will force e-tailers in foreign nations to collect a tax and send it our way? Either they won't collect or they may happily collect it but never send it to the US. Really, what can happen to you for breaking US tax law in China? Either way, it will be real incentive for e-tailers to leave the US for foreign nations since most of the crap we buy is made over there anyway. Are we going to have provisions in this law to abide by local taxes globally? A 'we collect for you if you collect for us' kind of arrangement? Nope, just shortsighted greedy state legislators I'm sure.
So what is to stop internet sellers from simply putting up a printable order form? If you have to snail mail in your order, it is mail ordered and exempt. No different from the situation now, but it takes a little longer. Certainly worth the effort on bigger ticket items.
But how is it that mail order would be exempt and internet sales would not be exempt in the first place? I'd love to know how they are going to just explain away
"No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state."
"No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one state, be obliged to enter, clear or pay duties in another." (Article I, Section 9 of the US Constitution)
I think that speaks for itself, or shall we have the revisionist telling us that 'vessels' meant spaceships, just like 'the people' means the National Guard in the Second Amendment? Maybe some of our fine lawmakers should have taken the time to read our Constitution at it's recent unveiling.
On the balance of probabilities, it seems to me that right about 10-20 years ago we should have stopped buring the planet's carbon sinks and moved over to nuclear.
Limestone.
Hmm, ok maybe a few more words. One word is gonna whiz right over the heads of our computer science crowd ;-) Limestone = largest carbon deposits on earth, basically CaCO3. Created by plankton, the most abundant form of life in the ~2/3 of the planet we don't live on, known as the oceans. You've obviously been led to believe that most of the Earth's CO2 was caught in few small bogs several million years ago and that handful of rain forest was taking care of all the world's CO2 for us.
Take a nice long look at Table 9r-1 here. Notice how units (in billions of tons) of fossil fuels = 4,000, where 'Marine Sediments' = 66-100,000,000. If the diagram were 'to scale' that black representing the fossil fuels would be smaller than a pixel. The earth gets warmer, the earth gets cooler. Stuff like this happens. The idea that we are going to destroy our environment with CO2 is laughable.
You must unlearn what you have learned young jedi :-) The big scary "Global Warming" is a 90's save the earth fad. Thirty years previous, everyone was worried about the impending Ice Age! Have a nice day, and don't let the sky fall on ya ;-)
but anybody short of that gets their pipe doubled ... would you go for it?
That's a rather broad assumption. Has it occurred to you that maybe they want to drop the top 1% because they simply want to make more money off the other 99%? If you haven't read this, then do so now. To quote from that article,
The good news is that this particular performance issue can be resolved by the cable company adding a new channel and splitting the base of users.
In other words, with 6 Gigabits/s available in that coaxial cable the bandwidth on the cable company's network is not the problem. The traffic generated outside their network, and costing Comcast $X is the problem. You're connection isn't going to get any faster when the pigs are gone. At best you'll get a short lived boost while they find other 'desirable' customers to use that bandwidth. Considering we are being sold on 'Always on, super fast connections' with no mention of bandwidth limits, I would be supremely upset if it were my ISP trying to pull this stunt. If they did, I would probably be shopping around for a new ISP. They provide no guidelines as to how much is too much, effectively making it a 'we can boot anyone we don't like' agreement.
And the worst part of it is, this crap happens all the time when something is internet related. Ridiculous stuff like $150,000 dollar fines for downloading a song. Let's see an electric utility try to pull a stunt like this, citing overloaded power grids and making the grids work for the other 99%. Or maybe the water supply, we'll just cut off LA's water supply then the rest of the state can use all they want! Wouldn't happen in a million years.
Yeah, and just when we were a few months away from talking about our desktops and their terabyte drives, (sound like terror, very 1337) we will instead get some kibi, mebi, tibi crap. That just SUCKS! Maybe there is hope yet. If we are lucky, they'll call it a titibyte! ;)
If a CD which costs $15 has 15 tracks, 5 of which are good, 5 of which are average, and 5 of which are bad, then it's
obviously not produced by an RIAA affiliate. Really. Name one cd with 5 good songs.
And then there's that whole CIA-Crack thing that no one ever did anything about. If they are on a leash, someone forgot to tie off the other end of it.
but because of its strong typing you have to write the sentences exactly correct
You mean proper syntax? Most every language I've ever used enforces that. Strong typing in AppleScript?
on run
set x to "A string"
foo(x)
set x to 1
foo(x)
set x to x as string
foo(x)
end run
on foo(some_var)
display dialog some_var
end foo
That script will run. Definately not strong typing.
I knew I should have waited two more years before getting engaged!
Here at Slashdot, many will be waiting a lot longer than that.
Is the diamond transistor really even all that special? IBM announced a 210 GHz transistor a long time ago. Any wonder why the PPC 970s are kicking the crap out of anything Intel has to offer? [Sorry, I couldn't resist ;)]
possible sites for russian nuclear power plants or the movie set for Total Recall ;)
According to this page it seems the small tube of liquid serves as a heat pipe. Not there so much for cooling reasons as it is for space constraints. But I could be wrong, today is the first I've heard of it... If I had mod points you'd definitely get a +1 for Mac trivia :-)
Ok, so I probably shouldn't respond to AC but you called me a troll. I believe the original parent was talking about replacement hardware. Like drives, RAM, etc. To say this stuff costs more for a Mac is patently false. My mac uses the same stuff the PC uses. On the actual system prices, Apple is not out of line. In many cases they beat a comparable system from PC manufacturers by thousands. Look at the XServe vs. Dell's offering. Or go spec out a dual Xeon vs. a dual G5. In a few cases Apple comes out a little more expensive, by a couple hundred dollars at most. But usually you get a lot more for your money. Take the 17" Powerbook for instance. A 'comparable' PC notebook might cost a couple hundred less, but does it come with GigE or the obvious 17" screen? Nope. And my guess is that if you looked at hardware failure rates, the expensive Apple comes out smelling like roses.